Napkins drawn by Nina Levy for her 15 and 11 year old sons.
Daily for 10 years. Now that the kids eat in the school cafeteria:
merely regularly.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Tuaca Napkin

This afternoon, drawing a glass of alcohol was strangely more compelling than working on mortgage paperwork. The deadline for this competition is tomorrow. I am not entirely sure why it has been so compelling for me, beyond the obvious fact that very few people or corporations offer monetary incentives for drawing pictures on napkins.

I had much bigger plans for the trompe l'oeil aspect of this drawing, but the 20 minutes I had to give it forced me to be more realistic... or maybe less realistic.

I spend a lot of time thinking about realism and the merits of accurate representation both in regard to my own work and students' work. Unfortunately, I did not have any meaningful epiphanies while drawing this...beyond perhaps the not very useful and persistent observation that I draw better when I don't have time to try hard.